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Fun fact: Washington actually freed more slaves than Lincoln, since the Confederacy was a foreign nation and Lincoln had no Authority to free any slaves there.
Fun fact: Juneteenth is a lie and the Emancipation Proclamation didn't affect Amerindian slavers who continued taking slaves (both black and Irish) until roughly 1893.